RSC Format (F1 Manager Professional)

Format type	Archive
Max files	unlimited
File Allocation Table (FAT)	None
Filenames?	only B
Metadata?	only B
Supports compression?	No
Supports encryption?	No
Supports subdirectories?	No
Hidden data?	No
Games	F1 Manager Professional F1 Manager 96

F1 Manager games by Software 2000 use the RSC Format to store various game assets.

File Format

There are 2 different formats used by Software 2000:

Variant A: Stores VGA palettes, PCX images and sound files (f1_e.rsc and user_e.rsc)
Variant B: Stores BRender assets: actors, models, materials, lights and cameras (3d.rsc)

Variant A: f1_e.rsc - palettes, PCX, sprites and sounds

Signature

File Entry

The entries in the archive are described by their size followed by the actual unencoded contents of the entry:

Data type	Name	Description
UINT32LE	size	Size of entry
BYTE[size]	data	Unencoded data of entry

The archive itself holds no description of its contents, so the offsets must be deduced from the executable reading the archive. There is no compression or special encoding used.

Variant B: 3d.rsc - BRender actors, models, etc.

Header

Those files have no signature and start with a simple header:

Data type	Name	Description
UINT32LE	num_directories	Number of directories in the archive
UINT32LE	num_files	Number of files in the archive

File entry

A list of num_files file entries follows the header:

Data type	Name	Description
UINT32LE	offset	Offset of data in file
UINT32LE	size	Size of data
UINT16LE	directory	Index into directories
char[14]	name	Name of file entry

typedef struct {
	uint32_t offset;
	uint32_t size;
	uint16_t directory;
	char name[14];
} file_entry;

Directory Entry

A list of num_directories directory entries follows the file entries:

Data type	Name	Description
char[80]	name	Name of the directory

typedef struct {
	char name[80];
} dir_entry;

After the directory entries the actual data as referenced by the file's offset field will start.

RSC Format (F1 Manager Professional)

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